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I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic.
— Carrie Brownstein
We would go out and play these songs and people could interpret them however the hell they wanted.
— Carrie Brownstein
I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do.
— Carrie Brownstein
I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.
— Carrie Brownstein
I would love to do a reunion tour if it only involved basements across the U.S.
— Carrie Brownstein
I think proteins are really good for your brain. And your brain is where comedy comes from.
— Carrie Brownstein
At nineteen, you can make out for hours, that goal-less, amorphous melting into someone else.
— Carrie Brownstein
Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.
— Carrie Brownstein
Nostalgia is so certain: the sense of familiarity it instills makes us feel like we know ourselves, like we've lived.
— Carrie Brownstein
It's hard to beat the visceral high of playing live and creating something spontaneous.
— Carrie Brownstein
You can't bury a part of yourself that's so innate to who you've been, even if it's not for the sake of anything other than a pure enjoyment of it.
— Carrie Brownstein
I think hypochondria always plays a part in the healthcare landscape.
— Carrie Brownstein
I got kind of tired of playing, I think. But I think it will be part of my life again, maybe.
— Carrie Brownstein
Once you're away from music, I realize that's as intrinsic to who I am as anything else. That's the part that takes me out of my brain.
— Carrie Brownstein
What I value most in new music is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because it combines so many things like that.
— Carrie Brownstein
I never want to contribute to the corrosiveness of wanting someone to stay hidden.
— Carrie Brownstein
I think closing-off is the most detrimental thing we can do as people. Also, the idea of not judging oneself.
— Carrie Brownstein
We want our parents to be the norm from which we deviate.
— Carrie Brownstein
The inexplicable is its own form of freedom. Belonging is not a form of restriction. We can't name the feeling but we can sing along.
— Carrie Brownstein
I will say, as a woman, when you put a mustache on, you find out a lot of things about yourself.
— Carrie Brownstein
You do have to live through things, and to live through things is to observe want, and to observe lacking. Even if the hunger is a curiosity.
— Carrie Brownstein
I always felt that the most common thread in my life from when I was young until now has been a highly observant, very analytical mind.
— Carrie Brownstein
I was a sprinter - there were no long-term goals,
— Carrie Brownstein
Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty.
— Carrie Brownstein
They were like really loud librarians. And as the audience, you better shut the hell up because you're in the library of rock right now. When
— Carrie Brownstein
I feel like I came in comedy's side door, and still feel very fraudulent in many ways.
— Carrie Brownstein
to be a fan is to know that loving trumps being beloved.
— Carrie Brownstein
With music, I get to a much darker place. Where I'm able to go with 'Portlandia' has a wider range, but also a brighter range.
— Carrie Brownstein
It turns out I'm not very good at working with a traditional boss.
— Carrie Brownstein
I'm always trying to encourage people not to limit themselves in the same way that many of our parents stayed with one job forever.
— Carrie Brownstein
There are foods you should avoid. For me, sugar is a no. Because it gives me a spike and then a crash.
— Carrie Brownstein
From a self-conscious standpoint, it's hard to see myself on a screen in a way that isn't just me playing music or doing something silly.
— Carrie Brownstein
I love coffee. I love a midday espresso on set, just for the energy.
— Carrie Brownstein
Sometimes I think that the best you can ever feel in a photo shoot is like a sexy clown.
— Carrie Brownstein
People are wearing fleece, which is a hard fabric to be angry in.
— Carrie Brownstein
Yet I felt it was unfair to be labeled when I had yet to find a label for myself, and when binary, fixed identities held no meaning or safety for me.
— Carrie Brownstein
For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved.
— Carrie Brownstein
I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.
— Carrie Brownstein
I'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty.
— Carrie Brownstein
Books grounded me, helped me to feel less alone.
— Carrie Brownstein
I have no desire to play music unless I need music.
— Carrie Brownstein
As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so it wasn't totally a foreign world.
— Carrie Brownstein
Nothing is as nice as plugging in your guitar and turning up the volume really loud, just seeing what kind of beautiful noise you can make with it.
— Carrie Brownstein
I'm interested in the crevices, and the grotesque, and the unsavory. That started out when I was young. I've never quite been able to shake that.
— Carrie Brownstein
I've always loved writing. Doing that at the same time as playing music can be tiring.
— Carrie Brownstein
I don't want to mislead people.
— Carrie Brownstein
I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself from music.
— Carrie Brownstein
We felt there was a creeping tepidness in music, a cloying softness, as if music were only a salve, not an instigator. It's
— Carrie Brownstein
I like to take things incrementally, and strive for something that feels more attainable.
— Carrie Brownstein
At that age I thought apartments were built specifically to house the single or the newly single, a divorce dormitory of sorts.
— Carrie Brownstein
The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music.
— Carrie Brownstein
The internet is just a scary place. It's better to just go to the doctor. Don't let Google get inside your head. It will do bad things to you.
— Carrie Brownstein
If you always want to look relevant, just be CGI-prepared.
— Carrie Brownstein
I'm all about being prudent. And I've started to appreciate experiences more than actual objects.
— Carrie Brownstein
These new bands sound like Gang of Four - if Gang of Four sucked.
— Carrie Brownstein
I think that there's always an assumption, when a band goes on hiatus or stops playing, that there's some acrimony brewing under the surface.
— Carrie Brownstein
I need a template of a template
— Carrie Brownstein
I think you should be prepared for a green-screen CGI at all times.
— Carrie Brownstein
Just invest in apps. Just download apps and then pay yourself the dividend.
— Carrie Brownstein
To become a fan of something, to open and change, is a move of deliberate optimism, curiosity, and enthusiasm.
— Carrie Brownstein
"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.
— Carrie Brownstein
I'm kind of a hermit - it's almost easier for me to write about connection than to actually connect.
— Carrie Brownstein
It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating.
— Carrie Brownstein
(Like a lot of middle-class kids, I needed my punk rock and rebellion underwritten by my parents.)
— Carrie Brownstein
I've learned to really enjoy video games. It's really toxic to have in your house, because it's really distracting.
— Carrie Brownstein
I have to erase my Google search histories, because they always lead to an obituary.
— Carrie Brownstein
The notion of "female" should be so sprawling and complex that it becomes divorced from gender itself.
— Carrie Brownstein
For me, being in shape means, like, not having cynicism out-weigh optimism on a daily basis.
— Carrie Brownstein
There is a direness in the construction of safety, in the telling of theretofore untold stories.
— Carrie Brownstein
It was about knowing you were going to be underestimated by everyone and then punishing them for those very thoughts.
— Carrie Brownstein
Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce.
— Carrie Brownstein
It's so nice to have a band name you don't have to explain.
— Carrie Brownstein
